How the Legislature in Luxembourg Deals with Europeanization

The focus of this paper lies on parliamentary questions and amendments and their value as tools for EU scrutiny. The increase of Europeanised legislation over the years which displays large variation between policy fields first and foremost restricts the government (Dumont and Spreitzer 2012). On the one hand, bill proposals introduced by the government more often show an impact from the EU. On the other hand, Europeanized laws seem to be more frequently amended than non-Europeanized laws. It seems that members of parliament counterbalance the difficulty of scrutinizing ministers in the Council of the EU by tougher scrutiny at transposition stage. In order to get a more complete picture we firstly take a more in-depth look on amendments. Do the amendments made by parliament consist in profound changes of draft laws or are they only cosmetic? Who normally introduces those and at which stage in the legislative procedure? Furthermore, we extend our perspective to parliamentary questions, as a second scrutiny instrument. Do deputies make use of parliamentary questions in order to scrutinize government in EU matters?